Using selver's python code as a starting point, I was able to put together an Archive bot that checks if a link is external. is a corporate news site (against a list of domains) and provide an archive link in the comments.

First time writing in python, so I somewhat butchered the code and want to clean it up a bit before posting. I have it checking all/new every 5 mins.

In the mean time, feel free to post any domains to add or problems you've noticed with it. I don't expect there to be any issues since it's pretty straight forward.

Right now the whitelisted domains (that won't be archived) are:

"raddle.me", "coinsh.red", "youtube.com", "youtu.be"

I was thinking to add a u/Archie command for users to generate archive links manually. I may add that in a future iteration if people are interested or think it makes sense.

Tequila_Wolf wrote at April 1, 2018 at 4:51 PM
(edited at April 1, 2018 at 5:27 PM)

Probably the latter is best?

If you're interested, it may also be worthwhile to coordinate with emma so that aside from other raddle addresses (and coinish and maybe others), every address submitted with a new post is automatically archived and added to the original posting as the main link.

Edit: or a checkbox with the option to do it when you make a submission?

Ok, I will change it up so the bot archives every link except internal, coinish, or youtube links. Let me know if you think of others.

It may also be useful if postmill has separate "bot" role admins can assign that doesn't affect algorithms or appear in /comments. I see the support site emma announced is down, so I will reach out there when it's back up.